Commercial Project Change Manager

Connect Plus Services; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Commercial Project Change Manager for the M25 London Orbital Motorway Project. This pivotal role is crucial for ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget, offering opportunities for mentorship and impact on high-profile infrastructure work. Join a dedicated team reshaping the future of UK highways with a focus on innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering complex projects.
• Experienced in managing costs and risks in civil engineering.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Buildability and Value Engineering reviews.
• Manage project budgets and costs.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams for project success.

Skills

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Problem-solving

Communication

Safety-focused

Digitally savvy

Education

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying, Construction, or Management

Tools

CSCS certification

SMSTS

Job description

Join Our Team as a Commercial Project Change Manager – M25 London Orbital Motorway Project

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in one of Europe’s most ambitious highway projects?Connect Plus Services (CPS)is looking for an experiencedCommercial Project Change Managerto drive innovation and excellence on theM25 London Orbital Motorway project,Europe’s busiest highway.

With offices inLeatherhead, South Mimms, or Dartford,we offer flexibility in where you work while contributing to the transformative operation and maintenance of this critical infrastructure.

CPS is a joint venture betweenBalfour Beatty, Atkins, andEgis, entrusted with operating and maintaining the M25—the busiest section of motorway in Europe. With over £100 million of annual investment in the highway infrastructure, this project is unlike any other, offering unmatched challenges and opportunities in highways engineering.

Whether you’re looking to advance your career or take on your next challenge, CPS offers the environment, expertise, and support to help you thrive. Be part of a team that’s reshaping the future of highways infrastructure.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Commercial Project Change Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the success of the M25—one of the UK’s most critical infrastructure networks. This is a role that combines strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and leadership, offering you the chance to drive meaningful outcomes and influence high-profile projects from concept to completion.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards. Whether it’s through value engineering, contract management, or collaborative problem-solving, your contribution will help keep the network moving.

Your responsibilities will include:

Leading Buildability and Value Engineering reviews, identifying smart, efficient solutions

Managing project budgets, costs, and evaluating changes with commercial rigour

Coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver successfully against time, cost, and quality targets

Applying your knowledge of civil engineering contracts to assess project requirements and present well-founded recommendations

Supporting tender processes and managing commercial reporting with clarity and consistency

Mentoring and developing others, while continuing your own professional growth

This is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to be part of a team that values innovation, supports continuous learning, and helps shape the future of UK infrastructure.

Who we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will be:

• A Proven Leader: With a track record of successfully delivering complex projects and mentoring teams.
• Commercially Astute: Experienced in managing costs, contracts, and risk in civil engineering projects.
• Technically Skilled: With a BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying, Construction, or Management and professional body membership (RICS, ICES, CIOB, or similar).
• Safety-Focused: Familiar with implementing safe systems of work in high-pressure environments.
• Digitally Savvy: Enthusiastic about leveraging digital tools to enhance project outcomes.
• Excellent Communicator:With strong verbal and written skills, capable of influencing at all levels.
• CSCS (Professionally Qualified Person), SMSTS, or equivalent certification.
• A valid UK driving licence.

Inspiring : Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.

Energising: Role models positive and energised project focussed attitudes towards and continuous improvement.

Challenging : seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.

Challengeable : Encourage a culture of skilled challenging and seek to understand and explore challenge to enable improvement.

Influencing : Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals.

Why Work for Us?

At Connect Plus Services (CPS), you’ll be part of a world-class team maintaining and operating the M25, Europe’s busiest motorway. As a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, we play a vital role in keeping millions of journeys moving safely and efficiently.

A Career Like No Other

Working on the M25 offers unrivalled experience, challenges, and opportunities that no other highways project can provide. You’ll be exposed to cutting-edge technology, large-scale infrastructure, and complex engineering solutions, making every day dynamic and rewarding.

Long-Term Stability & Growth

With 15+ years remaining on this project, we offer career stability, professional development, and progression opportunities. Whether you’re looking to build new skills or take the next step in your career, we invest in your growth.

A Supportive & Inclusive Team

At CPS, your contributions matter. We foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment where safety, innovation, and teamwork drive everything we do.

About us

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.

Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

This is a hybrid role designed to fully maximize team collaboration on the project, we offer flexible working where you will typically be working from your base CPS office, Leatherhead, Dartford or South Mimms up to three days per week and two days from home.

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